The Michigan Court of Appeals affirmed the murder convictions and sentences for two Genesee County men convicted of killing a former Livingston County man.

While the appeals court also affirmed the conviction for a third co-defendant, who was 17 at the time of the murder, it overturned his sentence of life in prison without parole.

“In light of this court’s decision in People v Skinner … (Kenya Ali) Hyatt must be resentenced so that a jury may determine whether he should receive life in prison without the possibility of parole,” the appeals court ruled in a decision released Wednesday.

Genesee County Prosecutor David Leyton said in 2014 that a sentence of life without parole for Hyatt is appropriate because the evidence showed Hyatt was the person who shot John “Any” Mick, 53, formerly of Brighton.

A 2012 U.S. Supreme Court ruling deemed it unconstitutional for juveniles to face a mandatory life sentence without parole.

Authorities said Mick, of Goodrich, was assaulted and killed outside his security vehicle during an attempted robbery in which the defendants — Hyatt, Floyd Gene Perkins, 23, and Aaron Williams, 33 — wanted to steal Mick's utility belt, which held his gun and other items.

Mick, who was retired from General Motors Co., once lived in Brighton and worked as a security guard at the General Motors Co. Proving Ground on the Oakland-Livingston county line before he took a job with LaGarda Security in Flint.

Perkins received an automatic life sentence for the second-degree murder of Mick, who was found shot to death outside River Village Apartments near downtown Flint in August 2010. He also was sentenced to 23.75 years to 50 years for armed robbery and conspiracy to commit that crime. Those sentences run consecutive to a two-year sentence for felony firearms.

Co-defendant, Aaron Williams, 33, was sentenced to 25-50 years for armed robbery and two-and-a-half years to five years for conspiracy to commit that crime, which runs consecutive to his two-year sentence for felony firearms.

Williams was charged with first-degree murder, but a jury could not reach a verdict on that charge. He later pleaded no contest to second-degree murder and was sentenced to 35-50 years in prison.